2nd November 2005, 9:15 AM
Sony is a Japanese company, trying to sound like the phrase "sonny boy" and failing terribly, I believe I heard somewhere...
And, I suppose you could buy it from Canada, but I live in Oklahoma. It is not a possibility for me. Land locked, I am pretty much forced to either pay high prices to import or just buy from the US with whatever restrictions may be in place.
Now then, that said, it is very clear that such laws these guys are attempting to pass are unconstitutional. The right to modify one's own property is something I consider an unnenumerated right, and as such is protected under whatever ammendment that was that protects those. (I am bad with memorizing numbers...) I'm not supporting hacking online games just because you have a liscense to play it mind you, considering the clauses forbidding such things in those liscenses. I'm just saying if I legally own something, I should be able to do what I want with it. More than that, if I invent something, it truly does have to do real physical harm to someone before the government gets involved. So what do I think of the FCC controlling broadcasting (and I'm not talking censorship here)? It's something that's pretty much needed actually. If one didn't have to buy a liscense for broadcasting in certain wavelengths, the sheer noise produced by everyone trying to use the same channel would basically make the technology useless. Further, signal strength requirements are needed because if all the stuff I had produced very strong waves that weren't checking to make sure they didn't interfere, there would be some major problems. So, I will grudgingly accept restrictions that must be in place to even use the technology.
And, I suppose you could buy it from Canada, but I live in Oklahoma. It is not a possibility for me. Land locked, I am pretty much forced to either pay high prices to import or just buy from the US with whatever restrictions may be in place.
Now then, that said, it is very clear that such laws these guys are attempting to pass are unconstitutional. The right to modify one's own property is something I consider an unnenumerated right, and as such is protected under whatever ammendment that was that protects those. (I am bad with memorizing numbers...) I'm not supporting hacking online games just because you have a liscense to play it mind you, considering the clauses forbidding such things in those liscenses. I'm just saying if I legally own something, I should be able to do what I want with it. More than that, if I invent something, it truly does have to do real physical harm to someone before the government gets involved. So what do I think of the FCC controlling broadcasting (and I'm not talking censorship here)? It's something that's pretty much needed actually. If one didn't have to buy a liscense for broadcasting in certain wavelengths, the sheer noise produced by everyone trying to use the same channel would basically make the technology useless. Further, signal strength requirements are needed because if all the stuff I had produced very strong waves that weren't checking to make sure they didn't interfere, there would be some major problems. So, I will grudgingly accept restrictions that must be in place to even use the technology.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)